Some newbie questions

[deeplow]

Hi @onequbesuser! Welcome to the Qubes Forum!

Let’s try to address each of these in its own thread so the solutions can be reused.

Issue 1.

@onequbesuser

1. When i wanted to start a terminal in a disposal VM (fedora or debian it doesn’t matter), it started but at the same time the VM has halted.

For this one, it’s a known issue. I’ve just written there an easier solution for people coming into Qubes. Please continue the discussion there:

DisposableVM Crashes After Opening Terminal / File Manager

Only Qubes 4.1 (the upcoming version) will have this fixed. But that release is still far into the future. So for now, the solution is the following: Opening a Terminal in DisposableVM (permanent solution) A user suggested a solution that solves the issue permanently (i.e. one can directly start gnome-terminal – the terminal application). But that may be too advanced for some. See bellow for an easier workaround: Opening a Terminal in DisposableVM (workaround) Open the xterm application (in…

Issue 2.

@onequbesuser

How can i change the default firefox settings in the disposal firefox? I didn’t find any documentation about it. It is just mentioned in this article [link] (Customization of DisposableVM), but i have no clue how to do it.

For this one see the link bellow and continue discussion there, plese.

Customizing Firefox in Disposable VMs

Hello I am new to these boards and have just started using qubes not that long ago. I would like to know how to customize the Firefox browser in a disposable qubes where I don’t have to keep changing the default settings every time I start firefox. I especially want the default search engine to not be google. I know how to install applications through the template VMs but the firefox customization in disposable I couldn’t figure out.

Issue 3.

@onequbesuser

• If i’d like to change the template VM of an AppVM, do i have to crearte a new AppVM, or can i just change the AppVM’s TemplateVM? I’d like to change all the 4 AppVM’s (default created Vault, Personal, etc…) Templates from fedora to debian.

Solved it for you:

Changing AppVM's Template

A user asks the following question:

As before, if you have any questions, address it there.